Welded joint



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WELDED JOINT Filed May 11, 1944 a ZZbv/zg g4 Patented Aug. 17, 1948 WELDED JOINT William H. Odlum, Wilmette, Ill., minor to Duro Metal Products 00., Chicago, 11]., a corporation of Illinois Application May 11, 1944, Serial No. 535,014

My invention contemplates and provides an electrically welded joint (for example a joint between a tool handle and its shank) that presents a neat and finished appearance despite that its welding flash has not been removed.

The salient object of the invention is to provide a satisfactory electrically welded joint in which retained flash is effectively concealed.

The aforementioned and other objects, features and advantages of the invention wil1 appear from the following description wherein reference is made to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which:

Figure l is a side view, partly in section, depicting two metal members as they appear when made ready to be joined together in accordance with the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a side view, partly in section, illustrating the same metal members as they appear immediately after being electrically welded together;

Fig. 3 is a. view similar to Fig. 2 illustrating how I conceal the welding flash;

Fig. 4 is a side elevational View of the weldedtogether members as they appear after the completion of the new joint;

Fig. 5 is an end view which may be considered as taken in the plane of the line 5-5 of Fig. 1 and looking in the direction indicated by the arrows;

Fig. 6 is a transverse view, partly in section and partly in elevation, which may be regarded as taken in the plane of the line 6-6 of Fig. 2 and looking in the direction indicated by the arrows; and

Fig. '7 is a transverse view, partly in section and partly in elevation, which may be regarded as taken on the line 'l'l of Fig. 3 and looking in the direction indicated by the arrows.

Similar characters of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Referring first to Figs. 1 and 5, at Hand I2 I have illustrated metal members that have been made ready to be joined together in accordance with the present invention. When joined together, they may constitute, for example, the handle and shank portions of a tool. It will be noted that one end of member I I has been hollowmilled to present a central projection or integral boss l3. The end face 14 of projection l3 has a diameter substantially equal to the diameter of the opposed end face l5 of member I2. Member I2, as I have chosen to depict it, has a diameter somewhat greater than the diameter of projection l3 and has been shouldered at i6 so that the opposed end surfaces I4 and Ill may have equal diameters. The milling of member II has left it with an integral annular lip l l coaxial with and spaced from projection l3 and extending substantially beyond the face It thereof.

It may be assumed that the members II and II, as shown in Fig. 1, are held in the electricityconducting jaws of a conventional or other suitabl electrical welding machine (not shown) capable of being operated to effect relative axial movement of members II and I2, to force their faces l4 and I5 together, to hold member I! equidistantly spaced all around from lip l1, and suitably to cause welding current to flow between such faces l4 and I5 as they approach each other.

Figs. 2 and 6 illustrate the parts as they appear after being welded together with the aid of a suitable electrical welding machine. It will be noted that the welding flash l8 (1. e., the are deteriorated metal extruded hot from between I6 (although the shoulder is not indispensable) member I! and projection I3 as their weld is effected) occupies what formerly was the annular space between projection l3 and lip H. An advantage of providing member I! with shoulder is that the flash, resultant from the burning away or the opposed ends of member i2 and prejection I3, is by the shoulder rolled back into the aforementioned space as and while the weld is being effected. The form of the shoulder may varyas shown in Fig. 1 it presents a slightly concave annular surface. it also will be noted that all of the flash lies well back from the edge of lip ii.

The joint of the present invention is now com-- pleted, as depicted in Figs. 3, 4 and 7, by so roll-=- ing or crimping the lip i? that its edge is caused to lie against or immediately adjacent to memfrequently resulting in objectionable diameter By reference to Fig. 2

1. The method of endwise joining two solid 'bar member having different end sizes which comprises the steps of hollow milling the end of the member having the larger end size to provide a central protuberance and a surrounding wall spaced from the protuberance and extending outwardly beyond the protuberance to define a channel and an adjoining opening of larger size than the end of the smaller member, moving the end or the smaller member into said opening to abutment with the protuberance without contacting said wall while causing welding current to pass between the protuberance and smaller member during the application of force urging the smaller member against the protuberance thereby to cause the welding flash to fill said channel, confining welding flash to the inner portion or said opening away from the ends of said outwardly extending wall, and then concealing said flash by forming the end portion of said extending wall inwardly to the surface of the smaller member.

2. The method of joining ,two members in endwise relation, the ends of which members to be adjoined are substantially cylindrical and of different diameters, comprising the steps of hollow milling the end of the member having the larger diameter to provide a cylindrical axial protuberance and a relatively thin Wall spaced from the protuberance and having a lip extending axially beyond the protuberance to define a channel and an adjoining cylindrical opening of larger diameter than the end of the smaller member, shouldering the end of the smaller member to provide a flash roll-back surface thereon adjacent the end and to make the end diameter thereof substantially equal .to that of said protuberance, moving the shouldered end of the smaller diameter member toward and against said protuberance without contacting said lip and while causing welding current to pass between said protuberance and the smaller diameter member, confining 4 the welding flash metal well within the axially extending lip, and then concealing the weldin flash by rolling the end portion of the extending lip radially inwardly to the surface of the smaller diameter member.

3. A pair of bar members having cylindrical portions of dill'erent diameters integrally joined in coaxial end-wise relationship, an annular wall integral with the larger diameter end portion pro- Jecting therefrom in spaced-from and sleevin relationship to the smaller diameter portion and an annulus of welding flash occupying the space between said wall and said smaller diameter portion, said wall turning inwardly to the cylindrical surface of the smaller diameter portion and concealing the welding flash in said space.

WILLIAM H. ODLUM.

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